Washington governor Jay Inslee says he's ordered immediate steps to correct a computer glitch that allowed several thousand prisoners to be released early. Computers were miscalculating sentences for some inmates, letting about 3 percent of the priso

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2015(十二)月

Script: (Thanks to all participants) Sometimes a peripheral character just grab center stage. Like Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. This is a dish where that exact thing will happen. Glazed carrots. To make this dish, we are gonna take sliced carrots a

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1. President Barack Obama takes the oath of office, speaking of limitless possibilities for the nation. He spoke before a flag-waving crowd of hundreds of thousands on the National Mall. 2. After a lunch at the Capitol, an inaugural parade down Penns

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1. A surgeon who contracted Ebola died on Monday. He has been cared for at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Doctors say the 44-year-old was in extremely critical condition when he arrived at the Hospital over the weekend. He contracted the

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There were protests in Berkeley, Missouri, one night after a white police officer shot and killed ablack 18-year-old. Police say Antonio Martin had pointed a gun at the officer,before the shooting. Islamic State militants in Syria have captured a Jor

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This is Scientific American's 60s Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Think about the tools used by biologists, perhaps test tubes and microscopes come to mind. But what about diapers? No, it's not the investigators in their work

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今天我们要学的词是tit-for-tat. Tit-for-tat意思是针锋相对,以牙还牙。Islamist militants' attacks and tit-for-tat violence between rival ethnic groups have cast doubt on Mali's upcoming elections. 伊斯兰国激进分子的袭击和

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Mosquitoes, Not Birds, Made West Nile National In 1999 West Nile virus infected its first American, in New York. By 2004, the disease had spread across the country. Researchers speculated that, for the disease to spread so far so quickly, birds must

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在《科学》杂志上的一篇研究中,研究者们描述了青春期时人体内细胞和分子的改变,正是这种改变促使这段时期的人们智力水平低下。 Ah, puberty. A time for raging hormones, growing independence and bei

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Hyaluronic acid - the largest glycosaminoglycan known, it plays an important role of restricting the flow of water in tissues, particularly in synovial fluid where it acts as a lubricant.. Hydrogen bo

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1. A Colorado sheriff says he's pursuing criminal charges in the case of a six-year-old boy who hided home as millions thought he was floating over Colorado in the helium balloon. The boy's parents met with investigators Saturday. The sheriff hasnt

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1. Federal Drug Enforcement Agency showed up an announcement to check the medical staffs of three NFL teams that were playing on the road. The DEA spokesman said no arrests were made following inspections of the 49ers, Buccaneers and Seahawks medical

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1. An American journalist says he is overwhelmed by the brave efforts to secure his release from a Syria extremist group. Peter Theo Curtis made his first public appearance since returning home last night. He has been held for nearly 2 years. 2. Poli

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Body odor. The smell of BO is unmistakable. And the culprit(犯人) behind that signature stench(恶臭) is a molecule called thioalcohol(硫醇). Our noses are so attuned(理解的) to it, we can pick up quantities as small as one part per trillion.

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Pulling the String on Yo-Yo Weight Gain噩梦:胖了瘦,瘦了又胖 We focus on what is called recurrent obesity or yo-yo obesity, which is a feature which affects close to 80 percent of all overweight individuals worldwide. 我们将重点放在复

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Even for NASA nebulae are too far away to visit, so they've built one of their own here on earth, 40 years ago scientists peered into the clouds of dust and gas created from the remains of stars, and to their surprise, found not just elements but org

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今天我们要学的词是hole up。 Hole up是躲藏,隐藏的意思。The escaped convict holed up in the basement of a deserted house, 意思是这名逃犯躲在一个空房子的地下室里。 巴基斯坦部队星期二向伊斯兰堡的红色

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地点:中央公园咖啡馆 人物:莫妮卡,钱德勒,罗斯,乔伊,伊丽莎白 事件:罗斯和伊丽莎白转为地下情,朋友们开罗斯的玩笑,调侃伊丽莎白的年纪。 Elizabeth: Oops! I did not mean to run into yo

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Why does blowing on hot soup help to cool it off? Its because of evaporation. Evaporation cools down a liquid because the most energetic molecules leap off the surface and leave the slower-moving molecules behind. Slower-moving means lower temperatur

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Microwaves heat water by jerking the water molecules around, so to speak. Each water molecule has a slight positive electric charge on one side and a slight negative charge on the other. As microwaves pass by, they exert forces on those charges, firs

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